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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1897
Page
6
A detailed guide to voting procedures outlines ballot retrieval, marking rules for straight and split tickets, handling spoiled ballots, folding and depositing ballots, and voter conduct within the polling place. It also covers penalties for violations and enforcement by election officers.
An outspoken quip on the Duke of Devonshire who reportedly sleeps in Parliament. The piece notes sleeping during sessions, the reading-room rule, and Lord Hartington’s well-known napping at the clerk’s table with hat over his eyes. It argues late-night hours force statesmen to seek sleep in the chamber.
In Tokyo a 54 foot wooden iron and plaster image of a goddess of war dedicated to Hachiman stands. The interior houses a winding stairway to the head area, capable of holding 20 people, with a sword in the right hand and a painted wooden ball in the left. The statue is an extensive anatomical model showing bones joints and ligaments at scale, with magnifying eyes as viewing aids.
A young American, after a quarrel with a neighbor’s boy, is told by his mother to say God bless Richard. The boy reluctantly complies, adding softly that Richard should be struck in the morning.
Mrs. Howlett of Somerset Kentucky observed two rats planning and executing a clever pantry theft. The rodents approached the tureen, aligned their bodies at the ends, wrapped their tails on the handles, and, at a signal, lifted the crosswise cover to create openings, enabling their raid on the baked goods.
A New York uptown dry goods store once offered free soda water from a large fountain, drawing thousands daily. When it began charging three cents per glass this year patronage plummeted, with only moderate crowds on very hot days despite full stores.
A young engineer tested a devices by facing Emperor Dom Pedro who planned a dramatic stop. On a cliffside curve a rock blocks the rails, but the engine brakes just in time. The emperor laughs as the block reveals to be a starch decoy set by the monarch the prior night.
A Santa Clara grocer runs a two side shop with one side for cash and the other for credit. Customers are shown goods on the cash side or the credit side based on their payment choice, creating a two faced store arrangement. The piece also recounts a colonial militia drill order and a humorous graveside quip about an expected funeral.
A Libyan exile bell once flown to Sobolsk in 1598 by Tsar Boris Godunov faces renewed contests between Uglich and Tobolsk over its exile. Tobolsk argues the bell remained banished for life. Uglich seeks return as courts in Tobolsk consider three centuries of possession. The dispute highlights lingering Siberian injustices and a symbolic struggle over relics.
A portion of the empire, notably British Columbia, has just adopted conscription. The ordinance faced the strongest possible opposition on grounds of non English character. Authorities in the colony argue for a unified imperial effort despite local resistance.
Chief Smith of the transportation department at the world’s fair shows a brass pocket relic from 1832 Leicester and Swannington Railway. The octagonal piece bears U and S Railway Bagworth No 29 and repeats on the opposite side. Tickets were issued at stations, guards carried a leather bag, fares were one and a quarter pence per mile, and passengers rode in open tub-like carriages with no tops or seats.
A Scot who toured Australia declares it a great reptile country with sixty five snake species forty two venomous and twelve dangerous. He notes forty to fifty frog varieties a large green frog with blue eyes and gold backs and about forty lizard kinds including night lizards and a frilled lizard that hops like a kangaroo.
A Port Morris storm reportedly rained hundreds of frogs onto streets amid witness accounts that defy easy explanation. Observers question cloud uptake theories while noting spontaneous life generation under rare electrical conditions and call for university extension lectures to illuminate the phenomenon.
A man named John Johnson sought a literary reputation and bought an old dictionary. After the dictionary was repaired, its back bore the imprint John son’s Dictionary, provoking his furious demand for his full name to be printed on it.
A gold ring unearthed at Elliott Missouri bears the inscription Hon John Frost Hsg ob 25 Feb 1822 3 x a1. Frost was son of Capt Charlie Frost a famed Indian fighter killed near the Berwick line of Kitty about 1782. Capt Frost's grave was desecrated by Indians who dug up the body and set it on poles before whites reburied it deeply and covered the grave.
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